Firstly, I notice that in any reference to the substance Merry is addicted to it has simply been referred to as ‘the drug’ or ‘your drug’. I have absolutely no idea why that is — I know they use naughty words like cocaine or some such on other prime time shows. Its handy that Charlie doesn’t require utensils to get his kicks — none of those pesky hard-to-find-on-a-deserted-island sterilised needles or even flat surfaces to draw lines on, nope just a simple gobble-gobble and immediatly your eyes will glaze over. Terrific! That’s todays handy-dandy survival lesson learnt from watching Lost — if you are going to become addicted to a drug, make sure it’s one you can carry around in a glad bag in your pocket and lap up in small quantities. My only other question is of course, how did he get it on the plane?

Its also rather lucky that dear old Merry is alive and unscathed as we see in his flashback that when the plane hit that bad news air-bubble thingy that made it go splat, Merry was in the loo (drug-gobbling), without a seatbelt, and smacked himself on the roof at the sudden drop. Unharmed.

I could nitpick for hours, but then Tom would refuse to publish me, so I’ll try some reviewing…

This episode (despite my misleading introduction — the Merry stuff is relevant because Director Kendall discovers Merry’s secret in this episode) is overall a Jin and Sun-centric episode. With lots of lovely flashbacks to their wooing, wedding and it all going downhill from there. We learn that Jin is a creepy mafia-type and that Sun still loves him. Plus, she speaks English, but don’t tell Jin or he’ll do bad things to her.

The group also split in two in this episode, half going to live in the caves (the new permanent set for the show) and half staying on the beach waiting for the rescue boat, because they don’t yet realise this is prime time and they have been contracted for 22 episodes. They’ll turn around. Kate has yet to play Eve to Jack’s Adam. Unfortunately despite the inside jokes and innuendo between Jack and Kate early on in the episode, it concludes with Jack going to the caves and Kate staying on the beach. A nice rift in the possibility for that relationship. We’ll have to wait until at least the end of the season now.

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